One of the reasons WWI was so bloody was because the generals on all sides still fought in the Napoleonic style even though modern weapons clearly made this pure stupidity.People got torn to shreds because they did believe in flanking tactics at all it was just move forward and die.

The old photo of the Germans with gas masks that reminds of the first British mask it used the ammonia in urine to filter gases so you had to urinate in the mask material every few hours it must have smelled wonderful.

Well for one thing I personally do not think that there will ever be wars as massive and violent as WWI and WWII.In modern times people put value on life much higher.

Now if people see an war that seems to have no purpose they will begin to question what is going on.It is much harder today to convince people to be willing to fight a large war and sometimes it may not have any real effect does the war of terror stop people from terrorizing?

Americans during the Vietnam war and even Soviets during the Soviet Afghan war realized that people where dying and no goal was being achieved.After that leaders learned to hide much more what the media is allowed to see.

The real reason that the US and NATO have such interest in Afghanistan is the minerals there.You can effectively counter terror with law enforcement no need to have so many troops in another country unless you are after something else.

False flag terror, color revolutions, and detabilization campaigns are the future of warfare. Read The Grand Chessboard to understand what is happening in central Asia. With controlled media is just as easy as ever to get the public support for any war you like. WW3 is in progress.

Some of that comes from personal experience.In the US military when they know that the media is going to be about they have the Public Affairs troops come around and tell you this and that and they give little cards telling what to say.Also in general they a very restricted when they can go unlike Vietnam where they could go anywhere they pleased and had little restriction as a result they showed a lot that had never been seen by non combatants.Sometimes they where not always correct likt during Tet in 68 the attacks where a surprise but the US and ARVN pretty much decimated the enemy and American morale was high because they for once could see for sure that they where harming the enemy.But it was true that the COIN was not having any effect and that was the whole bread and butter of the entire war we also failed to realize that we where fighting in a civil war.

I just say what I know and have have some good friends officers in certain places what they see in Afghanistan makes them very un optimistic as to what is going on there.

Don’t seem to care?
The US alone has spent billions developing precision guided weapons so we could take out a building next to a school, and not harm the school itself. Not care?

People have always gone to war. And probably will continue to go to war for generations to come.

Yojimbo, please, oh please enlighten us as to this fantastic mineral wealth that is in Afghanistan.

I can assure you, if there is anything worthwhile there, we have no interest in staying there. I know there is some wealth there, but if anything, we’d help them develop it.

It makes absolutely zero sense to stay there ourselves. Like people have said over and over about the “war for oil”. What oil? We sure haven’t seen it, we don’t even have any private contracts (to speak of) for oil.

You’re implying that the US and NATO is there to grab this wonderful mineral wealth?

Sorry, it makes far more sense to let THEM have it and develop it, and produce something besides opium and terror.

I can’t see any logic, whatsoever, to staying there and “taking” their wealth. (that’s always been the soviet unions specialty, didn’t they “own” just about every “stan” there was, until the breakup and they couldn’t do anything about it? Now you attribute this to the US and NATO? Get real.)

What even is your point?You are clearly a person who blindly follows “conservative” ideas.A fool being lead by someones agenda just like any other fool it does not matter the party view all blind left wingers or right wingers they are stupid.

You must not have read any paper or viewed any news outlets in the past 3 or 4 years as the fact the there is much mineral wealth has been mentioned even on the most conservative network in the US FOX News.

You are just a last fool have you ever been to Afghanistan? No myself I was stationed there twice I know who is there what companies.

Also a 1000 or 2000 pound bomb will kill anyone within 500 yards that is well within your “building next door claim”. We do try to avoid the deaths of civilians but that does not mean that it never happens.

Yojimbo, please, oh please enlighten us as to this fantastic mineral wealth that is in Afghanistan.

Note the first link Mr.Johnson it is from Fox news
Educate yourself please you clearly need to.